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BIBBIA CEI 2008	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 «Figlio dell’uomo, prendi una tavoletta d’argilla, mettila dinanzi a te, disegnaci sopra una città, Gerusalemme,	1 “And as for you, son of man, take up for yourself a tablet, and you shall set it before you. And you shall draw upon it the city of Jerusalem.
2 e disponi intorno ad essa l’assedio: rizza torri, costruisci terrapieni, schiera gli accampamenti e colloca intorno gli arieti.	2 And you shall set up a blockade against it, and you shall build fortifications, and you shall put together a rampart, and you shall encamp opposite it, and you shall place battering rams around it.
3 Poi prendi una teglia di ferro e mettila come muro di ferro fra te e la città, e tieni fisso lo sguardo su di essa, che sarà assediata, anzi tu la assedierai! Questo sarà un segno per la casa d’Israele.	3 And you shall take up for yourself an iron frying pan, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. And harden your face against it, and it shall be under a siege, and you shall surround it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Mettiti poi a giacere sul fianco sinistro e io ti carico delle iniquità d’Israele. Per il numero di giorni in cui giacerai su di esso, espierai le sue iniquità:	4 And you shall sleep on your left side. And you shall place the iniquities of the house of Israel on it by the number of days that you will sleep on it. And you shall take upon yourself their iniquity.
5 io ho computato per te gli anni della sua espiazione come un numero di giorni. Espierai le iniquità della casa d’Israele per trecentonovanta giorni.	5 For I have given to you the years of their iniquity, by the number of the days: three hundred and ninety days. And you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 Terminati questi, giacerai sul fianco destro ed espierai le iniquità di Giuda per quaranta giorni, computando un giorno per ogni anno.	6 And when you will have completed this, you shall sleep a second time, on your right side, and you shall assume the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days: one day for each year; one day, I say, for each year, have I given to you.
7 Terrai fisso lo sguardo contro il muro di Gerusalemme, terrai il braccio disteso e profeterai contro di essa.	7 And you shall turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be extended. And you shall prophesy against it.
8 Ecco, ti ho cinto di funi, in modo che tu non potrai voltarti né da una parte né dall’altra, finché tu non abbia ultimato i giorni della tua reclusione.	8 Behold, I have surrounded you with chains. And you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other side, until you have completed the days of your siege.
9 Prendi intanto grano, orzo, fave, lenticchie, miglio e spelta, mettili in un recipiente e fattene del pane: ne mangerai durante tutti i giorni in cui tu rimarrai disteso sul fianco, cioè per trecentonovanta giorni.	9 And you shall take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and vetch. And you shall set them in one vessel, and you shall make for yourself bread by the number of days that you will sleep upon your side: three hundred and ninety days shall you shall eat from it.
10 La razione che assumerai sarà del peso di venti sicli al giorno: la consumerai a ore stabilite.	10 But your food, which you will eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day. You shall eat it from time to time.
11 Anche l’acqua che berrai sarà razionata: un sesto di hin, a ore stabilite.	11 And you shall drink water by measure, one sixth part of a hin. You shall drink it from time to time.
12 Mangerai questo cibo fatto in forma di schiacciata d’orzo: la cuocerai sopra escrementi umani davanti ai loro occhi».	12 And you shall eat it like barley bread baked under ashes. And you shall cover it, in their sight, with the dung that goes out of a man.”
13 Il Signore mi disse: «In tale maniera mangeranno i figli d’Israele il loro pane impuro in mezzo alle nazioni fra le quali li disperderò».	13 And the Lord said: “So shall the sons of Israel eat their bread, polluted among the Gentiles, to whom I will cast them out.”
14 Io esclamai: «Signore Dio, mai mi sono contaminato! Dall’infanzia fino ad ora mai ho mangiato carne di bestia morta o sbranata, né mai è entrato nella mia bocca cibo impuro».	14 And I said: “Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my infancy even until now, I have not eaten anything that has died of itself, nor that which has been torn up by beasts, and no unclean flesh at all has entered into my mouth.”
15 Egli mi rispose: «Ebbene, invece di escrementi umani ti concedo sterco di bue; lì sopra cuocerai il tuo pane».	15 And he said to me: “Behold, I have given to you cow manure in place of human dung, and you shall make your bread with it.”
16 Poi soggiunse: «Figlio dell’uomo, ecco io tolgo a Gerusalemme la riserva del pane; mangeranno con angoscia il pane razionato e berranno in preda all’affanno l’acqua misurata.	16 And he said to me: “Son of man, behold: I will crush the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety. And they will drink water by measure and with anguish.
17 Mancando pane e acqua, languiranno tutti insieme e si consumeranno nelle loro iniquità.	17 So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities.”